Q: (Kate Walker – GP Week).
Lewis, obviously none of us experience putting together a pole lap like the one we just watched and it really was a phenomenal performance. Could you explain what it's like actually sitting in the cockpit; do you sit there completing your sectors going ' wow, I'm really on it' or is it only afterwards that you realise how well you've done?

Lewis Hamilton:No. You have a delta time on your dashboard so you can tell as soon as you cross the line into turn one and when you start the lap whether you're up or not and so you kind of keep checking it, halfway through, after each corner, after each sector so already by turn nine I could see that I was two and a half tenths up and you just don't want to lose that, so you have to take extra care after that, but also you want to improve. But yeah, you also feel that it's a feeling having the tyres up to temperature, the brakes up to temperature and the car just beneath you and not trying to get away from you. Sometimes it is like a wild bull, you're trying to tame it which is very very difficult to do. But when you do, and you pull out a lap like that, it really felt like 2007. I couldn't hear anyone still, because the car's too loud, hopefully I got a good roar today.

Q:It looked like the track improved a lot, two or three tenths improvement from session to session this afternoon.

Lewis Hamilton:Yeah, each time we go out we seemed to... which is kind of normal but it's quite a good surface here at Silverstone so the grip does continue to go down (on the circuit) and hopefully that will be good for us tomorrow.

Q: (Julian Harris – City AM).
My question is for Lewis as well: are you still learning this car, are you still finding out more each week and do you think you're getting better in each race, or do you think you've pretty much got it sussed now?

Lewis Hamilton:I definitely haven't got it sussed. This weekend's been a tough weekend. Every weekend is tough, even if you are used to a car it's tough but I really have been struggling with the car, trying to tune it, trying to get it to behave the way I want it to, and then drive it and extract what I want from it. Out of all the cars I've driven, it's one of the hardest cars to drive. So when you pull it together, it's a great car and obviously very quick. Each weekend I'm working as hard as I can, each weekend it does feel like it's improving a little bit. We made another improvement on the brakes this weekend which is another step in the right direction so I hope we can continue going forwards.

Q: (Peter Farkas – Auto-Motor, Hungary).
Lewis, obviously Paddy Lowe is now at Mercedes and he is here, working with you. Is it a boost for you personally to have him in the team since you have known him for a long time, and did you influence the decision that he would join the team in any way?

Lewis Hamilton:I don't believe I had any influence on him coming here. I think that was a decision of his and Ross and Toto. Is it a boost? It's a boost to the team. We already have some incredibly talented people in the team, doing fantastic things and coming up with great designs but the stronger the package, the better it is for everyone. He's a good addition to the team and hopefully he will only help us moving forwards.

Q: (Livio Oricchio – O Estado de Sao Paulo).
Sebastian, you started Q2 with hard tyres. It looks like you are very comfortable with tyre wear... No?

Sebastian Vettel:You said I started Q2 on the hard tyres?

Q: (Livio Oricchio – O Estado de Sao Paulo).
Yes.

Sevastian Vettel:No. I did only one run in Q2 with the soft tyres, well, medium.

Q: (Livio Oricchio – O Estado de Sao Paulo).
Well, it looks like you are very comfortable with tyre wear for the race. Is that correct?

Sebastian Vettel:Well, it depends. I think comfortable or not depends on where the others are. I think we were happy with the runs that we had yesterday. I had another one this morning, so I think we are pretty happy with that but it's difficult to judge, because you don't know what fuel loads other people are running, the usual stuff, so we will find out tomorrow plus in the race it's always a little bit different. Tomorrow is supposed to be hotter which is nice for the crowd after the last couple of years, I think it was always quite miserable on Friday, so now we've had a good Saturday and tomorrow, as I said, again a little bit warmer so it could change the balance of the car and how the tyres work. I think we've saved as many tyres as we could and the ones that we liked so let's see what we can do tomorrow.

Sebastian Vettel:Well, I didn't really think about that. I think it's not good news for him. For sure he wanted to be a little bit higher up as well as Ferrari. It's a bit of a surprise. I think they've been very competitive here the last couple of years but this is also a circuit - let's not forget - where the balance is very important so even if you have a good car, if it's not coming together it can make a big difference, especially over one lap. And the other thing, that's why I'm not too interested to look at the results today. In the race we've seen that a lot of things can happen and people starting from further back can still score a lot of points and come through the field, so I think in terms of race pace and tyre wear they will be strong tomorrow and surely, should everything go as per plan for them, they will finish higher up than tenth. Everything else, I think, would be a surprise.

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